Remote US DevOps Engineer: AWS, Terraform & Security

OpenTalent; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTalent is seeking a DevOps Engineer to own cloud infrastructure, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability across AWS resources. You will design, deploy, and maintain services, and partner with the security team.

This full-time remote role is based in the United States, requires 3-5+ years of experience, Terraform proficiency, and a focus on CI/CD, monitoring, and compliance with HIPAA/SOC 2/HITRUST.

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of hands-on DevOps or Cloud Engineering experience.
• Strong experience with AWS core services; AWS certification is a competitive advantage.
• Proficiency in Terraform.
• Experience with Docker and orchestration (ECS, Fargate).
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (HIPAA, SOC 2, HITRUST).
• Must be based in the U.S. and have work authorization.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain AWS resources (e.g., EC2, ECS, RDS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, IAM).
• Build and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• Implement and maintain robust monitoring, alerting, and logging systems.
• Continuously assess and harden infrastructure security.
• Support compliance initiatives (HIPAA, SOC 2, HITRUST).
• Participate in troubleshooting of production issues.
• Monitor system performance, investigate bottlenecks, and recommend improvements.
• Be responsible for production issues during business hours

Skills

AWS core services

Networking

Unix systems

Cloud security

CI/CD

HIPAA compliance

SOC 2

HITRUST

Time management

Independent work

Small-team collaboration

Work authorization

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Job description

OpenTalent is seeking a DevOps Engineer to own cloud infrastructure, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability across AWS resources. You will design, deploy, and maintain services, and partner with the security team.

This full-time remote role is based in the United States, requires 3-5+ years of experience, Terraform proficiency, and a focus on CI/CD, monitoring, and compliance with HIPAA/SOC 2/HITRUST.